I was thinking last night while giving one of my ghost tours around Salem that I should try a social experiment. I would be interested if someone had a really good platform just touching on everything that the average person finds in need of change, a friendly face which expresses compassion and honesty, is NOT a politician, and actually can think of all the outcomes possible out side of the box; how many votes this person could get by not spending any money on a presidential campaign only using the internet as their medium. It could really get interesting.
Would you back an average American who is smart, witty, brutally honest with no sugar coating, kind hearted, tough on crime, able to create a sound budget, cut unneeded spending, increase taxes on the overly-wealthy not the middle and lower income families?
I would vote for this person if I saw them in person, and was able to determine that they were genuine. I have little faith in our political system anymore, and would not vote for someone solely based on internet content, because I would not trust that they were a "real" person. My immediate response would be to think that they were fictitious and created by one of the major candidates to steal votes from the other.
ReplyDeleteI think I would have the same skepticism as Claire. I wouldn't need to see the candidate in person, but I would need fairly solid evidence that someone had, like maybe if a lot of their videos posted online showed them doing door-to-door canvassing and discussion centering around them on the internet was led by people who they definitely had spoken to.
ReplyDeleteLook Im the person that doesnt vote due to, I believe no matter if as Americans we have that right, I feel that the government still controls the votes. However if this candidate was a person who could change all that as the two above stated, then I would make sure that I registered to vote and would help this person get in.
ReplyDeleteHypothetically thinking...regardless if they are a politician to begin with or not...that some how I think that once you get into the existing system, that it is more than they expected...and that it is possible that no matter how honest they are that the system itself could corrupt them as well and they could feel stuck and powerless to do the right thing...In the perfect world, all that are elected would do what is right for their voting public...and not get caught up in all the other junk...unfortunately that is not what is currently happening...which leaves the rest of us disheartened. Not sure who to vote for this year and who I can trust...because those I thought I could trust in the past have not done much to help the current situation. I still have hope...but not much to choose from this year...I keep hoping that God Blesses us and helps us through this current state of our Nation.
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